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Salina group wants fluoride out of water
Water. Your mom said to drink it growing up, your coaches told you to drink it after practice, and your doctor says to drink plenty of it. But Salina Cares worries that its city’s water may actually be bad for people’s health. “Right now, our focus is on keeping flouride out of the water supply […]
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Hydrogen fluoride leak forces evacuation of downtown Vancouver building
Several people were sent to hospital after a hazardous material scare in downtown Vancouver yesterday. Crews discovered a hydrogen fluoride leak in the building around noon. Eight people reported feeling ill and five were examined in hospital as a precaution. All of them are now doing fine. Police evacuated the building and closed Homer Street […]
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Balsam Lake ends fluoridation
Sewer Water Committee report was given by Josh Hallberg. The DNR recommends that the Village obtain electronic scales to measure and better monitor the dosage of the addition of fluoride in the public water system and also to build a separate room addition to each well station to store the fluoride. There are no requirements […]
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Yorktown: State training program offers fluoridation tools and resources
Yorktown, N.Y.—When Yorktown, N.Y., faced a fluoridation challenge last month, Dr. Carl Tegtmeier was prepared, thanks to fluoridation spokesperson training he received in June 2012. Dr. Tegtmeier was one of 19 dentists to participate in the New York State Oral Disease Prevention Program presented by the New York State Department of Health in Albany. Fluoridated […]
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Concern About Fluoride In Salina Water
More than 50 people filled the Prescott Room at the Salina Public Library on Thursday evening January 31st to hear Dr. Albert Burgstahler of Lawrence Kansas, explain why fluoride is unsafe and ineffective. Dr. Burgstahler is a world recognized expert on fluoride, co-author of Fluoridation, The Great Dilemma, editor of Fluoride, the peer-reviewed Journal of the […]
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Fluoride bill tabled in Pierre
Now an update on a bill we first told you about last week. South Dakota Senate Bill 201, which would remove the requirement for Fluoride to be added to South Dakota’s drinking water, has been tabled. That means this issue has been postponed for later discussion. Supporters of the bill say it’s time we looked […]
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Whanganui: Fluoride call from dental boss
Whanganui District Health Board’s new head of dental services says he is concerned by the high level of oral disease in Wanganui, and urged residents to use fluoride toothpaste. Robin Whyman was recently appointed Wanganui’s dental services clinical director. Based in Hawke’s Bay, where he is the Hawke’s Bay DHB’s dental services clinical director, Dr […]
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Markley balks at fluoride on principle, not science
SOUTHINGTON — When Republican state Sen. Joe Markley proposed a bill on Jan. 11 to eliminate the state mandate of adding fluoride to the public water supply, he was bombarded by negative reactions. The basic response to S.B. 131 was “How can you be against good teeth?” Markley said. “It’s a more complicated question than […]
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Go and get the wolves, officials tell hunters
The first 100 wolves have been killed in the Sakha Republic as the authorities step-up their campaign to protect people and reindeer herds, officials confirmed. Our picture shows the early results of a cull which is aiming to slaughter as much as 87.5% of the wolf population of Russia’s largest region. The number of kills are […]
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Editorial: Brooksville fluoride debate falls into cavity
There are two things wrong with the Brooksville City Council’s decision to take fluoride out of the municipal drinking water. It’s the wrong public policy that will prove costly to residents’ oral and financial health and it was done in a clandestine manner to avoid public scrutiny. The council should be ashamed for ducking a […]
United States, Florida